Academic Year 2007-2008

The Beginning of the Long Civil Rights Movement with 'Plenty of Opposition'
March 10, 2008, 5:00PM
Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall
Part of The Gill Lecture Series; Cosponsored by the Tufts University Department of History, Office of the Provost, and The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Speaker: Leslie Brown

Journeymen: Race, Boxing, and the Transnational World of Jack Johnson
March 3, 2008, 5:00PM
Goddard Chapel
Part of The Gill Lecture Series; Cosponsored by the Tufts University Department of History, Office of the Provost, and The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Speaker: Theresa Runstedtler

Jihadism between the East and the West
February 27, 2008, 5:30PM
Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th Floor
Speaker: Farhad Khosrokhavar, Professor of Sociology and Director of Studies, L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
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Discourses on Black Criminality in the Making of the Segregated Urban North
February 25, 2008, 5:00PM
Goddard Chapel
Part of The Gill Lecture Series; Cosponsored by the Tufts University Department of History, Office of the Provost, and The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Speaker: Khalil Muhammad

The Pakistan Crisis
January 30, 2008, 5:30PM
Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th Floor
Speakers: Shahla Haeri, Director, Women's Studies Program and Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Boston University; Hussain Haqqani, Director, Center for International Relations and Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University; Vali Nasr, Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School and Associate Director, The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
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Why Are We in Afghanistan?
December 5, 2007, 5:30PM
Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th Floor
Speaker: Barnett R. Rubin, Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center on International Cooperation, New York University
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Religion, Pluralism, and Terrorism: 21st Century Dilemmas
November 14, 2007, 5:30PM
Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th Floor
Speaker: John O. Voll, Professor of Islamic History and Associate Directory of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
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The Middle East at 2008: Challenges for the US
October 3, 2007, 5:30PM
Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th Floor
Speaker: Shai Feldman, Judy and Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and Professor of Politics, Brandeis University
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